Road to the Civil War

By conwayr19

  • First slaves in Colony

  • Cotton Gin

    Took the seeds out of cotton.

  • Tarif

    more expensive to get goods from other places

  • Missuri Compromise

    The Missouri Compromise of 1820 was an attempt to prevent the expansion of slavery into the new territory of the Louisiana Purchase. This was a temporary compromise

  • Messuri Compromise

  • Fedric Douglas Speeches

    Was a big motivation

  • Anixation of Texas

  • The Republican

    • People who did not want slavery held a new voice
    • A group of free soilers called republicans stated up
    • They did not believe in slavery
    • They started to become bigger and bigger
    • They started to grow and grow

  • War with Mexico

    Wanted Texas to be free and not be under Mexicos rule. So the fought in and won. And made the lone Star Republic

  • Mexican American War

    gave us land in Mexico

  • Violence in the Senate

    • There were tons of fighting and arguments
    • There were battles and fights
    • There was argument from both “governments”
    • These spread them apart even more
    There were many argumants and fights between each government

  • Wilmots Proviso

    Lawer that wanted to banned slavery, by making a dividing line

  • Election of 1850

    It was when the democrats held the election. And the pros and cons of this. And how both sides reacted. And how it pushes a Civil War. And the Anger and revolts between each side. • Divided Mexico into territories
    • Voters would decide what they wanted
    • Fugitive Slave Act;

  • Wilmot Proviso

  • Period: to

    Fugitive Slave Act

    The Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 allowed southern slave owners to recapture their run-away slaves in the North as well as imposed fines for hiding fugitive slaves.

  • Bloddy Kansas

    Kansas became a place of hate
    People started to kill over there beliefs
    Most of them are farmers
    Both sides then split up into seprate govs

  • Uncle Toms Caben

    "Uncle Tom's Cabin", written by Harriet Beecher Stowe, was an anti-slavery novel which revealed the true horrors and evils of slavery to the North.

  • Bloody Kansas

    Blud shed in Kansas

  • John Brown

  • A.L

    Was big in stopping slavery

  • Election of Abe

  • Attack on fort sunter

    Started Civil war

  • Lincon v Douglas

    The were in a big battle and doglas one

  • Jhon Brown

    Stole guns and went to trial then became a hero in the north

  • Cansis Nebraska act

  • Bloddy

  • The Dred Scout case

    Dred Scout was an abolitionist that took matters into his own hands he tried to arm slaves, but they were scared. So he later got hangeed.

  • Fugitive Slave Act 1

  • \

  • P2

    • The Compromise of 1850 mainly went toward the Mexican Cession